Industry continues working to support updated GRASE findings for UV filters avobenzone, homosalate, octinoxate, octisalate, octocrylene, oxybenzone, ensulizole and meradimate, which the FDA categorized more than two years ago as lacking data, a position it reprised in 2021 under its overhauled OTC monograph system.
The Personal Care Products Council and the Consumer Healthcare Products Association are making progress on their work plan for eight sunscreen actives identified by FDA as requiring updated data.
Meanwhile, the continue to ask the agency to postpone final rulemaking on the UV filters’ generally recognized